In what is being viewed as bad news for Apple, Consumer Reports, one of the most thorough publications to do testing on laptops, says Apple's new MacBook Pro has problems with consistent battery life.

As a result, Apple's latest laptops, popularly referred to as MacBook Pro 2016, are the first from the tech giant not to receive a "recommended" rating, Consumer Reports said in a blog post on Thursday.

The tests included all three of Apple's new MacBook Pro models: the 13-inch MacBook Pro without Touch Bar, and both the 13- and 15-inch models with the Touch Bar, a new kind of touchscreen integrated into the laptop's keyboard.

Here's what Consumer Reports says:

The MacBook Pro battery life results were highly inconsistent from one trial to the next.

For instance, in a series of three consecutive tests, the 13-inch model with the Touch Bar ran for 16 hours in the first trial, 12.75 hours in the second, and just 3.75 hours in the third. The 13-inch model without the Touch Bar worked for 19.5 hours in one trial but only 4.5 hours in the next. And the numbers for the 15-inch laptop ranged from 18.5 down to 8 hours.

Those were just a few of the results; we tested battery life on these laptops repeatedly.

After 2016 MacBook Pro battery life issues became news, Apple responded with, "When combined with the differing ways people use their Mac throughout the day, the calculation of remaining battery life displayed as a measure of time has become less accurate," according to the Business Insider. "With the latest update to Sierra, we have removed the remaining time indicator."